FWIW, I would agree with Lisa and encourage you to adopt this approach.
However, Lisa's example does raise an issue which has irritated me from time to time. If when you return to the top level task after you have completed all the sub-tasks and if all the sub-tasks are now hidden (because you have chosen the hide completed option) and you add another sub-task, MLO adds it as the first task in the list rather than the last (ie: if you add the new task and then change to show all Completed Tasks, your new task will be the first in the list). I cannot see a good reason for this - it would be better (IMV) if the new task was added at the end of the list. Richard From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lisa Stroyan Sent: 06 August 2012 5:03 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [MLO] Task with subtasks in the To-Do panel? Probably not. I should have been more clear...you *can* change your filter, but you might not want to, in the long run. My suggestion would be to rethink your task structure. The "Active" actions model of MLO is really powerful and well-thought out, in my opinion, and trying to circumvent it is going to lead to frustration. (And I'm not always a big fan of using applications as the developer intended :) What I do is use the parent task as the reminder to complete/wrap up any loose ends after the children are done. So, look at it as the last task, rather than the first. It will become active as soon as the children are no longer active. If you want a "begin the project", make that the first task in the tree. Sometimes you'll only want to see the first task. You can mark "complete in order" on the parent if you only want to see the first task, but I find that frustrating when I want to see all of the children at once after the first task is complete. So to make all the rest of the children become active at the same time, use dependencies. You can select all of the children at once and add a dependency to the first task. E.g: Finish remodeling project Plan remodel details Call contractor Purchase materials If I only wanted to see "Plan remodel details" then I could make the other two tasks dependent on it, and they wouldn't be active until it is complete. Going back to your original question, as soon as all of these children are done, "Finish remodeling project" becomes active, and reminds you that you might not really be done yet...in which case you can add more children (finish remodel becomes inactive again, because it can't be marked off yet), or you can complete it. Lisa On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 8:18 PM, Patrick Piquette <[email protected]> wrote: That's exactly what I need, thank you very much :-) Can I do the same on the iPhone iPad applications? Pat On Sunday, August 5, 2012 9:15:49 PM UTC-4, Lisa S wrote: The reason they are not there is that parent tasks are not active until their children are complete, and you are using a view that shows active tasks only. Try switching to a different view or creating your own by taking your favorite view and switching the Action Filter to "Available" or "All". The help has a good explanation of "Active". Lisa On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Patrick Piquette <[email protected]> wrote: Is there a way to have tasks (regular, folder or project) with subtasks appear in the to-do panel (windows application)? Why do task with subtasks cannot be seen in the to-do panel eventhough it has the context I filter in? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mylifeorganized/-/g15zsYxp2p0J. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] <mailto:mylifeorganized%[email protected]> . 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